Public Opinion

Name: Public Opinion
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Author: Walter Lippmann
ISBN: 9781982768065

Author: Walter Lippmann

Narrator: John Klickman

Unabridged: 10 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Author's Republic

Published: 07/15/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, Public Policy

Synopsis

An instrumental work on today's outlook on the dominance of media in democracy, Public Opinion, is a key work by author Walter Lippmann. Does the manufacturing of consent amount to a democracy in the way democracy is practiced? Does the mass media have a control over the public opinion? These are questions that are more important today with the emergence of new technologies like the internet, and older technologies, like television, which are being politically dominated by an opportunistic media. Public Opinion is a highly recommended work for those who are interested in understanding the role of media and public opinion in politics and also those who enjoy the writings of Walter Lippmann.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William

A very important book in its time. And in ours. Lippmann warned 100 years ago about the dangers of too much democracy. Lippman argued that the American populace (“the bewildered herd”) must not overly influence government policy. Instead of a true democracy, in which the people directly control the c......more

Goodreads review by Brian

Want to understand the last hundred years, and maybe the next hundred, in terms of the interplay between mass media and people's assumptions? The short book is an awfully good start.......more

Goodreads review by Robert

This book is unfairly maligned because Chomsky holds it out as an example of elite liberal ideology (and it is a fair example in that regard), but Lippmann has a point about "public opinion". He wasn't the first or last to point out that the spontaneous majorities on various subjects are not necessa......more

Goodreads review by Emiliya

Ако трябва да дам определение на тази (известна) книга на Липман в две думи, то те биха били “непоносимо скучна”. Толкова непоносимо скучна, че въпреки краткия си обем, изглежда сякаш няма край. Това съвсем не се дължи на факта, че първото издание е над 100 годишно - от 1922 г. Нито се провокира от р......more